Lead UX Designer

We are seeking top tier talent to join our pioneering team and propel us towards our destination. You will be joining a team of innovative product, tech, and design leaders that tirelessly seek to question the status quo. As a UX Designer, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of building this business and bring these tools to market.

We are currently seeking a Lead UX Designer to join our team. We are passionate about advocating for user needs and delivering world-class products that redefine our customers’ day-to-day activities.

The Design team is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re an innovator and storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment and learn, we would love to hear from you. 

What You’ll Do: 

As a leader and maker, you’ll be asked to handle responsibilities, including:

Strategy & Planning

• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs — then translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experiences
• Translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product experience 
• Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team
• Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition 
• Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including: discovery, research sketch sessions, and user testing
• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis 
• Working with partners and teams across various geographies
• Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset

Leading & Developing Teams

• Building and leading successful teams through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating others
• Guiding team members in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks
• Navigating conflict resolution within your team as well as within projects, teams and partner relationships

Discovering & Delivering

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities 
• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams 
• Driving end-to-end product design by:
• Working with researchers to understand customer needs and define opportunities  through usability and empathy studies 
• Framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs
• Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes
• Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs
• Designing within existing — and creating new — standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines
• Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders
• Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

Basic Qualification

• At least 5 years of experience with User Experience design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for cross channel experiences
• Experience working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma
• Experience managing a cross-functional team
  

  Salary Range: $140,000 - $195,000 annually